Two days in Italy and someone's driven into my hire car while it was charging 👌
Lewis | ICO Partners
@persistentworld.bsky.social
📝 Publishing producer, game marketing, self-publishing @ ICO ✍️ Worked on Baldur's Gate 3, Dispatch, Darkest Dungeon 2 & Witchfire 📧 Reach me on lewis@icopartners.com 📢 I did a talk at GDC once 🔎 View just some of my work here https://www.lewisburnell.com/
Tried to book to see The Odyssey again next week in IMAX. Every single showing in Sheffield has sold out, at every single time. Wild.
I love PC Gamer but I think this needs adjusting. A +23 key in World of Warcraft this season is 0.1% of the pop. It's a ridiculously high level. By any measure it is not a low level key. That's why it's so egregious. Most people run 10's. I run 18's @pcgamer.com www.pcgamer.com/games/world-...
Blizzard is investigating a World of Warcraft cheating scandal after game master 'death-touched' bosses for friends without realizing it was being recorded
One of the players then went on a Twitch stream to spill the beans.
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Louis Vuitton bag, Robbie Williams, Tom Cruise - am I in some weird fever dream?
One of last year's best horror games, Total Chaos, is getting a low-poly Retro Mode soon and it looks awesome. gameinformer.com/2026/07/16/o...
Defender of the Crown was first released 40 years ago on Amiga. This year, it's relaunching with a ground-up remake, all new modes and content. If you'd like a review key for it, or chat to its original artist, James Sachs, do let me know.
If you're heading to #gamescom, we've Tarn Adams. If you'd like to chat to him, please drop me a DM
This is remarkable, especially after Sony seems intent on punching itself in the face repeatedly over AI and physical discs
Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · last mo.I unhinged my jaw to swallow Activision and now I can't chew my food www.gamesradar.com/games/micros...
I see games on consoles at £65+ and thoroughly enjoy my £5 Steam summer sales.
Will Borger@edgarallanbro.bsky.social · last mo.The real question now is, if consoles are just going to be walled garden PCs with inferior hardware and no disc drive, why would you ever buy one? Games run worse and cost more on consoles. Backwards compatibility is iffy. No mods. You pay the manufacturer to use your own internet. So... why?
The more I look at my Steam library, and that it could all be taken away, the more I want physical. Christ, I'd pay for a service that rips my Steam games onto disk and gives me installers so they'll always work.
Morgan Park@morganpark.bsky.social · last mo.Plus...nobody "ended" support for physical PC releases. People just stopped buying them, so companies stopped making them. It could come back whenever (and has).
ICO has begun taking bookings for gamescom! We'll all be there this year, with some incredible games (Dwarf Fortress, Tides of Annihilation, The Defiant, Usual June and Cresata!) let me know if you'd like the booking link #gamescom
Moira looking like David Bowie. Roadhog has been on Ozempic, and Brig is heading to Highguard
Lewis | ICO Partners@persistentworld.bsky.social · last mo.This cannot be real. Jesus Christ.
My latest board game newsletter is live, with some amazing upcoming titles diceengine.substack.com/p/the-ukge-e...
🎲 The UKGE Edition Part #2
Here's the final roundup of amazing crowdfunding campaigns that the expo had to offer
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Witchfire's latest trailer achieving almost 250,000 views in 2 days across IGN and GameTrailers. The desire for this game and for it's 1.0 launch is huge. youtu.be/rBy8o6jqU28?...
Witchfire - Official Revelations Update Trailer
YouTube video by IGN
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Does anyone know which PR Agency is handling Mistfall Hunter?
#Witchfire's 0.9 is now live. It's the final major content update before 1.0 later this year, bringing incredible new locations, weaponry, systems and importantly, its story. Genuinely, it's absolutely incredible.
Housemarque has a 120 person team? Saros took 4 years to develop. Conservatively, that's what, €65 million to develop? That, like most AAA budgets, just seems entirely unsustainable, especially when you throw exclusivity into the mix.
On the back of UKGE, my latest newsletter is live diceengine.substack.com/p/the-ukge-e...
🃏The UKGE Edition
All the best crowdfunding campaigns that the expo had to offer
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Need to book some annual leave for Guild Wars 3
